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F. E; MUNN. OPENER FOR ENVELOPS 0R WRAEPERS FOR NEWSPAPERS OR THE LIKE.

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Patente'd June 16, 1896.

WITNESSES:

l/VVE/VTOR ATTORNEYS.

ANDREW B GRANAM,PHDTO'IIIHD.WASHIN6TON.DC. I

. UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

FRANK E. MUNN, or nnw YORK, N. Y.

OPENER FQR ENVELOPS ORWRAPPERS FOR NEWSPAPERS OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,336, dated June 16, 1896. Application filed April 18,1896. SerialNo. 588,116. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK E. MUNN, 0 New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Openers for Envelops or Wrappers for Newspapers or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in openers for envelops, wrappers and the like, and has for its object to provide an opener of the character indicated, which is equally adapted for envelops, newspapenwrappers, wrappers for boxes, parcels, and packages of every description, and boxes themselves.

A further object of the invention is to provide an opener, which will virtually form a portion of the envelop, wrapper, or box, being so attached thereto that it can be readily grasped and drawn in direction of one or the other ends or sides of the envelop or wrapper, so as to sever the same and disclose the contents thereof without injury to the same.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of an envelop having my improvement applied and illustrating a portion of the opener withdrawn from the envelop and the latter partially opened at that end at which the opener is applied. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of a portion of an envelop broken away at one end and showingthe opener in side elevation. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of newspaper- Wrappers having my improvement applied. Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective views of a package and box,respectively, having my improvement applied to the wrappers thereof; and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a portion of a box to which the improvement is applied.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, A represents an envelop, and B the opener located at one end thereof. Instead, however, of arranging the opener at one end of the envelop, as shown, it may be placed at the top or bottom of the envelop or at any other point wherever it may be found desirable.

and Fig. 7 to a box itself.

the end of wire out through the envelop to the exterior thereof, then bending it inwardly to form the member 10, which lies parallel with the body of the wire and on the outside.

of the envelop, then passing it through the envelop to the interior of the same, and finally bending it outwardly, forming the member 11, which lies within the envelop and parallel with the body of the wire, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

If in practice it is found desirable, any desired number of loops may be formed in the body portion of the wire between its end loops, or but a single loop may be formed in the wire and visible from the outside of the envelop, the other end of the wire being likewise se cured to the envelop.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the opener is shown applied to newspaper-wrappers; in Figs. 5 and 6 to a wrapper for a package and box, respectively; In these views the wire is applied and formed with loops similar to those above described with reference to the envelop, and the loops may extend beyond the edges of the same, as shown in Fig. 3 and the left-hand end of Fig. 6, or arranged a short distance from said edges, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 7 and the right-hand end of Fig; 6.

By securing the wire to an envelop, wrapper, or box as above described, it will be firmly and securely held in place, the formation of the loops effectually preventing it from being accidentally loosened or detached, and owing to the size of the loops, and the fact that they hug the surface of the envelop, wrapper, or box closely, they will not protrude beyond the outer surface thereof to any appreciable extent, and certainly not sufficiently to be caught by any mail-matter, or any object with which the envelop, parcel, box, or package may be brought in contact in transportation or storage.

In operation to open an envelop or wrapper or box all that is necessary is to grasp the exposed member of one of the loops and draw the loop, and by means of it the body of the Wire, outward, as shown in Fig. 1, whereupon the body portion of the wire will cut the envelop or wrapper as it frees itself, making a clean cut, and opening the envelop or Wrapper of the parcel, box, or package and without injury to the contents thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with an envelop, wrapper or the like, of an opener, consisting of a fine wire, the main portion of which lies on the indescribed.

FRANK E. MUNN.- Witnesses:

J NO. M. BITTER, J. FRED ACKER. 

